It’s been a rough month for Jenny McCarthy. Following her
backpedaling op-ed
in the April 12th Chicago
Sun-Times she has taken considerable heat for stating that she has
never been anti-vaccine, as well as suggesting an alternative vaccination
schedule based on her “feelings.” We at ACSH approached this from a different angle in a Dispatch item last week, where we asked why
should anyone care in the least what a former model has to say about
immunology.
But in an op-ed column the
April 21st New York
Times entitled Autism and the Agitator, author Frank Bruni is,
well, rather frank. And that’s putting it kindly. Bruni questions McCarthy’s
claims that she was never anti-vaccine, and she has a lot of explaining to do
if she wants to get out of this.
It is pretty clear where Bruni is going from his opening
two sentences: “What do you call someone who sows misinformation, stokes fear,
abets behavior that endangers people’s health, extracts enormous visibility
from doing so and then says the equivalent of ‘Who? Me?’ I’m not aware of any
common noun for a bad actor of this sort.
But there’s a proper noun: Jenny
McCarthy.”....To Read More.....
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